Brief Thread compiling disparate links I have come across regarding recent examples of Special Forces, US intelligence, national security & banks collaborating with/facilitating the drug trade. Most of these come from this excellent compilation of info rhizzone.net/forum/topic/14…
finance.yahoo.com/news/confirmed… "...between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels"
High level Cartel member indicats "a 'simulated war' in which the Mexican & US governments are willing to show favor to a dominant narcotrafficking organization in order to minimize the violence and business disruption in the major drug plazas, or markets" narconews.com/Issue67/articl…
narconews.com/Issue40/articl… DoJ attorney claims DEA "are on drug traffickers’ payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much...directly involved in helping Colombia’s infamous rightwing paramilitary death squads to launder drug money."
In 2012 HSBC, a bank with origins in the 19th century opium trade controlled by Britain, caught laundering over $800 million for "the Cartel" investopedia.com/stock-analysis…
Immediately before becoming Trump's ghoul, Steve Bannon, a former high-level Naval intelligence officer and Goldman Sachs banker worked in Florida with a Gambino-affiliated private equity rapist (heraldtribune.com/story/news/loc…) & resided in a "porn & meth house" americanindependent.com/steve-bannons-…
2023: "At least 13 soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are under investigation for drug trafficking" military.com/daily-news/202…
2018: "a decorated U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was arrested and charged in relation to an attempt to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to Florida, but he may just be one player in a multimillion-dollar operation" taskandpurpose.com/news/special-f…
2019: Two Army Green Berets plead guilty in plot to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia armytimes.com/news/your-army…
Keep in mind that US Special Forces have expanded exponentially all around the globe for the purposes of training "local forces" ever since 9/11j theintercept.com/2015/09/09/u-s…
Also keep in mind that Los Zetas, noted by many as Mexico's "most brutal Cartel" was started by members of Mexico's own Special Forces businessinsider.com/how-34-command…
Trump's ties to both the WWE's McMahon family as well as Dana White, & his appointment of Linda McMahon to his 2nd admin, are interesting in the context of this thread, as Vince McMahon is also a predator accused of sex trafficking & WWE-UFC merged under the auspices of Endeavor
Endeavor is a massive entertainment company that has its origins in William Morris Talent Agency, which was itself controlled by organized crime in Hollywood by the 1960s. Ari Emmanuel & his brother, Rahm Emmanuel, have much influence in both parties & long-standing ties to Trump
In 2021, while the Vince McMahon sex scandal first started to gain traction & Endeavor was working to create TKO for the WWE-UFC merger, Diddy signed to Endeavor for representation in all areas. Diddy then attended Ari Emmanuel's wedding alongside Elon Musk & Rahm Emmanuel
Insane that this guy, who was once suspected of murdering his own girlfriend, built a surveillance tool for police to arrest prostitutes under the guise of "anti-sex trafficking" tech while maintaining friendships with P. Diddy & Danny Masterson.
Also came up as an Abercrombie model while the company was being run by a guy Les Wexner handpicked who just so happened to turn it into an Epstein-style enterprise
To be clear Kutcher himself didn't really "build" Spotlight but he definitely catalyzed it's development with his money & gave it a positive spin in the media by doing this farce
"Bondi’s...ties to Scientology go back at least as far as 2010 and a Scientology-sponsored fundraiser took place at the Fort Harrison during her 2014 re-election campaign." Blog post from 2016 web.archive.org/web/2018111901…
"Steven Mnuchin, finance director for Trump’s presidential campaign, owns Dune Entertainment. That company merged with Scientologist tinged RatPac Entertainment, owned by James Packer, a wealthy, wayward Scientologist whom the church is trying to return to the fold"
Joel Greenberg, the the Seminole County Tax Collector charged with Matt Gaetz for sex trafficking, created a crypto company *within* government buildings to facilitate his crimes. The man who helped him, Samuel Armes, is a State Dept official who played an indirect role in Jan 6
A document called "1776 Returns", "laid out an operational strategy to occupy federal buildings on Jan 6, 2021" While Armes denies writing any of that, he admits the documents ideas largely come from a "war gaming" exercise he led in in "August or September 2020"
Politico notes Armes "also developed an association with a member of the Oath Keepers now facing obstruction charges" & escaped any charges related to the company he co-founded & operated with Greenberg, which, in addition to sex trafficking, also looted $400,000 from taxpayers
USA has been using tariffs, embargoes and sanctions at such an insane level to wage war on small non-Western nations for so long a lot of them have developed a trade infrastructure to survive even harsh ones. Re: large nations like China & Russia it now harms USA the most lol
Protectionism isn't a magic button that automatically destroys a foreign nations economy without causing any side effects in the nation being "protected."
US bourgeoisie is competing with its counterparts in Eurasia over control not only of specific markets or resources but the totality of "global capitalism." They're desperate, so they are, in both parties, pushing protectionism to the point of paradox
In the late 1980s & throughout the 90s, Jeffrey Epstein became friends with Donald Trump & Bill Clinton. Simultaneously, Trump & Epstein built an international sex trafficking ring through modeling agencies. This ring catered to the bourgeoisie & State bureaucracy
The sex ring of the late 80s & 90s was made possible in large part by the destruction of the Eastern Bloc & the "opening" of nations in the USSR & SRFY to Western capital. Both the modeling industry & the sex trade grew exponentially thanks to Eastern European women
Two other men involved in the Trump-Epstein ring were titans of the modeling industry John Casablancas (the father of Julian Casablancas, the front man of The Strokes), who is considered the innovator of the "Supermodel" concept, & Jean-Luc Brunel, French leader of Karin Models